Elephant in the choir stalls at Ripon Cathedral for #WoodenWednesday. I suspect he is from the C19 restoration works as it's been carved by someone who knows what an elephant looks like, unlike some of the medieval ones...
St Margaret's church, st Margaret's.
Wonder if the trefoil has been recycled from somewhere else?
It's either late for #WoodenWednesday or early for #AdoorableThursday.
Now Go and Sin no more!
Misericord in Poitiers Cathedral for #WoodenWednesday.
Not quite a foliate head, but maybe a foliate hairdo?
Altarpiece showing scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of St Denis, early C16 and likely made in Brabant for #WoodenWednesday, in the Collegiale Saint-Denis, Liège. Once part of a triptych, the side panels were broken up during the French Revolutionary occupation of the city.
Old barn near Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Suitable for #WallsOnWednesday #WoodenWednesday and #AdoorableThursday I reckon.
A mermaid on a misericord at Ripon Cathedral for #WoodenWednesday. Mermaids symbolized vanity, hence the mirror in her hand.
Foliate head in the choir stalls at Poitiers Cathedral. He's in-between two angels holding crowns.
#WoodenWednesday
a Misericord. In the middle is a bird surrounded by a fetterlock on which it is standing. On either side are similar, closed fetterlocks.
A Falcon and Fetterlock misericord in Ludlow. This was the heraldic sign either for Richard duke of York, or his son, Edward IV. For #WoodenWednesday
A river with stones and two wooden pilings in the foreground. In the background hills and a large historic building with several smaller buildings.
Leeds / Liverpool canal
Mooring post on the Leeds / Liverpool canal.
#WoodenWednesday #canal #Leeds #Yorkshire #Liverpool
A scarecrow crafted from planks of wood
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, Max Planck
#WoodenWednesday
#woodenwednesday #woodensday #Ruddington #Rushcliffe #rushcliffecountrypark #eastmidlands #mono #wood #monochrome #blackandwhite #photograph #photography
A square chest, highly carved, with three sets of locks on it.
A magnificent medieval chest in Hereford Cathedral for #WoodenWednesday
A carved wooden sculpture depicting the head of a long-haired, bearded man stands in a grassy glade. He resembles the writer Alan Moore but is intended to represent a “green man”.
#WoodenWednesday
The Alan Moore shrine. Cotswolds Commons & Beechwood Centre
Beach Bar for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBars #WoodenWednesday #BeachLife #BlueSkies #Portugal #photography
Finely carved wooden stature. A man in armour holding a long pole is holding, in his left hand, the neck of a fairly small, presumably dead, dragon.
St. George and the Dragon, German, c 1480-90. Victoria and Albert museum #WoodenWednesday
Wooden carving of a head at the end of a seat in the quire. His hair is chin length and he wears a cap or hood of some sort towards the back of his head.The top of the headgear and his nose are well burnished.
A medieval face for your delight on #WoodenWednesday. From Great Malvern Priory. #Medievalsky
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver
Silver Birch, Nottingham '25
#EastCoastKin #WoodenWednesday #Nature
Some of the carved Misericords which can be found in the Chancel of All Saints Hereford, with a further set in the Lady Chapel.
#WoodenWednesday #Woodensday
Wooden bridge in the lovely grounds of the National Trust's Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, with no sign of a troll 🧌nor any billy goats thankfully 🐐
#Woodensday #WoodenWednesday #AngleseyAbbey @midsandeastnt.bsky.social
